Thelma Fontaine - A 40-year-old given a three year order
banning her from the Leeds red light district (June 2006)

Peter Allenby - A 45-year-old man banned from entering
the Leeds red light district after a court heard he drove prostitutes
in and out of the area (April 2005)

Sarah Marsden - A prostitute given an order by Leith
Council to make it clear to others that their "antisocial
behaviour" will not be tolerated (July 2005)

Sofia Charles - A prostitute in Reading sentenced
to three months imprisonment for breaching her order (January
2005)

Nottingham City Council has outlined plans to launch ten applications
for ASBOs against prostitutes as part of their bid to cut down
on street crime.

Karen Weaver - A prostitute from Edinburgh, has been
banned from the Leith Links area as a result of complaints from
local residents. Officials claimed it to be the first in a number
of orders it will be campaigning for against prostitutes (July
2004)

Joette Lydiate - A Manchester prostitute banned from
soliciting in any public place in England and Wales (June 2004)

Vanessa Bex - A prostitute living in the London
borough of Camden, she was the first of many repeat offenders
to be handed orders banning them from their usual place of business.
(July 2002)

Cardiff city centre - Beggars in the city centre have been
threatened with ASBOs by South Wales police. Richard Edwards,
chief executive of the Huggard Centre which works with the homeless,
criticised the move: "Our philosophy is to develop people
out of homelessness but we cant do that if they are being
punished for being an addict. You have to help them overcome
those addictions...Its understandable and recognisable
that anti-social behaviour is a problem that needs to be addressed
but it has to be in a supportive, positive way...When people
are in extreme poverty, moving them on just takes them somewhere
else and displaces those problems" (July 2009)

John McKay - The first beggar in Scotland to be
given an order (December 2005) He has since been banned
for life from Edinburgh's city centre streets (December
2006)

Christina Wort - A 28-year-old homeless woman given
an order banning her from begging or sleeping rough in Reading
town centre for two years. She is also banned from having drugs
anywhere in Britain (September 2005)

Andrew White - A 43-year-old homeless man jailed
for three weeks for breaching the terms of his order (which,
being illiterate, he could not read and nobody had read it to
him) by sitting on a fire escape (August 2005)

Daniel Richardson - A 37-year-old drug addict, who turned
to begging to fund his habit, was jailed for three months under
the terms of his order for "courteously" asking a motorcyclist
for money (March 2005)

Peter Fish - A 31-year-old forbidden from begging
in any public place in England or Wales for the next two years
(February 2005)

Alan Riley - A 70-year-old, who struggles to walk,
handed an order banning him from begging for money for the next
five years (December 2004)

Manchester soup
kitchens - Mobile
charity soup kitchens are being targeted, along with the homeless
they provide for, as part of the council's drive to clean up
the city centre. There were initial reports of orders being made
but there has been a distinct lack of media coverage since (October
2004)

Westminster council - Announced a new strategy under which
beggars in London's West End will be warned five times before
they are served an order (October 2004)

Leeds - 15 people were served interim orders
banning them from begging in the city centre as part of a wider
clampdown across Yorkshire (August 2004)

Peter Broadbent - A 36-year-old beggar served an order
forbidding him from sleeping on Manchester's streets or asking
"earnestly and humbly" for change (July 2004)

Camden council - The case of Matthew Lock (April 2004) received the
most publicity when he was banned from Camden Town, but the council
has also placed order on a large number of beggars operating
around Tottenham Court road. Some of these include the first
orders banning an individual from begging anywhere in Britain.

Campbell &
Lawler - Two Cambridge
beggars handed orders, both of which were subsequently breached
within days (March 2004)

Leonard Hockey - Manchester city council's serving of an order
to this 51-year-old non-aggressive beggar set a precedent for
their use against the homeless. Hockey died three months later
having travelled down to London and camped outside the gates
of Buckingham Palace in protest (August 2003)

Thomas Dolan
& Thomas Whittaker
- 20 and 18-year-old graffiti artists had their prison sentences
overturned and five-year ASBOs quashed - the judge ruled that
their use was "inappropriate" because their graffiti
was not threatening or offensive (October 2007)

Joseph Hiles - A 19-year-old banned from possessing
spraypaint cans or marker pens and from entering any Metro or
Railtrack property (September 2007)

Billy Murrell - A 17-year-old banned from the top
deck of any public transport vehicle in England (September 2007)

Ben Allpress - A 19-year-old given an ASBO banning
him from carrying containers of paint and ink markers in a public
place (September 2007)

Ben House - An 18-year-old graffiti artist handed
an order on his release from jail with numerous restrictions
banning him from the practice. These include posting images of
graffiti or tagging on websites or sending them by mail or mobile
phone message (October 2005)

Paul Bannatyne
& Mark Rickards
- Two 19 and 20 year-old student graffiti artists in Manchester
have each been jailed for 10 months and handed three year ASBOs
in a landmark case (April 2005)

Brighton - Police have announced plans to use
ASBOs to impose night-time curfews on individuals repeatedly
found guilty of graffiti related offences (December 2004)

Diabolical Liberties - Following on from their action against
Sony & BMG (see below), Camden Council continued to set a
precedent for the use of ASBOs in this field when Highbury Corner
magistrates court granted their application and served temporary
orders to the managing director and three employees of this promotions
firm banning them from flyposting (October 2004)On 23 March, Tim Horrox, managing director of the
company, was handed a full ASBO banning him from arranging
flyposting anywhere in Camden over the next two years despite
having given an undertaking in court to end the practice. Horrox
also pointed out that in the past he had coordinated flyposting
on behalf of Camden council's Arts and Leisure Department. The
order, Camden's 150th, applies only to the borough despite the
council's attempts to secure a nationwide ban and written letters
from 19 local authorities asking for the order to apply to their
borough. One report estimates this legal case against Diabolical
Liberties to have cost £80,000. An analysis of the ruling's
broader implications for flyposting can be found on the Media Weekwebsite (March
2005) Horrox has since been
ordered to pay £46,000 in costs to cover the Council's
lengthy legal battle against him (September 2005)

Sony & BMG - Camden council has taken out several
orders against these two companies in an attempt to stop them
illegally flyposting in the borough (an act that allegedly costs
taxpayers around £250,000 a year). Although it now seems
the orders have been withdrawn against Sony, BMG employees
still face a prison term if found to have organised the practice
(June 2004)

Thomas Sherwin - A 15-year-old from Richmond
received an order banning him from drawing graffiti anywhere
in England and Wales or to be in a public place with spray paint,
marker pens, etching materials or any other articles related
to the practice of graffiti (June 2004)

Glen Clarke - Clarke, who works for Street Media
Distribution Limited - an organisation believed to be linked
to Diabolical Liberties - was served a two year order forbidding
him from flyposting in the city of Nottingham. He is also forbidden
from possessing posters or paste (May 2004)

Daniel Halpin - A 19-year-old convicted of graffiti
damage to a tube depot has been served an order banning him from
carrying any graffiti-related materials for a period of five
years. He is also banned, over this time, from associating with
any of those he committed the original offence with (December
2003) He later breached the order and spent four-and-a-half
months on remand in a young offender institution before being
sentenced to a 200-hour community punishment order (October 2004)

Karen Bulmer - Jailed for the fifth time in under
six weeks for breaching her order for the twentieth time. Her
solicitor said: "She is a chronic alcoholic. Once she is
released from prison, within hours she will have a can in her
hand. It is the way of things (July 2009)

Codie Greenfield - A 19-year-old sentenced to eight weeks
in a young offender's institute for standing outside a nightclub
after having drunk three pints of lager celebrating his cousin's
21st birthday. He was not carrying any alcohol, and says he did
not feel drunk, but police determined he has breached the terms
of his ASBO which stipulate that he cannot be drunk in a public
space (April 2009)

Peter Swinbourne - Jailed after seeking shelter from
the cold in a police station (April 2009)

Ruth Ryan - A 36-year-old who phoned emergency
services over 100 times when drunk given an order banning her
from dialing 999 unless in the case of a genuine emergency, and
from being drunk in public (March 2008)

John Bailey - A 41-year-old who breached an interim
order seven times in 21 day. His lawyer said: "The order
was imposed for the best of reasons but simply imposing it doesn't
cure the disease, the disease of alcoholism...This is a 41-year-old
man who struggles to remember how old he is...He can't remember
which offence is which because he can't differentiate one day
from another. (November 2007)

Leslie Richman - An example of a council using an order
to displace an "anti-social" individual (September
2007)

Stuart Graham - A 17-year-old given an order as part
of a campaign to stop underage drinking. He is banned from buying
alcohol and being in the possession of alcohol - offenses that
are already covered by common law (August 2007)

Peter Charles
Dickens - An alcoholic
jailed for a year for breaching an order. After sentencing him
Judge Robin Onions questioned the appropriateness of making Dickens
subject to an order in the first place. He said: "For a
man with your difficulties to be subject to three separate Asbos
is unhelpful...I have real doubts whether an Asbo is the right
way to deal with someone who has chronic health problems and
alcohol difficulties...I have suggested you are subject to one
Asbo now with simple targeted conditions which you understand"
(May 2007)

Edward Bryson - A 43-year-old banned from drinking
in public anywhere in England or Wales (May 2007)

Robert Wilson - A 53-year-old abusive alcoholic given
a two-year order (November 2006)

Sandra Dobson - A 60-year-old given an order in an
attempt to curb her drunken behaviour has already broken it six
times and is now threatened with jail (July 2006)

David Jones - A 40-year-old banned from all pubs
and licensed premises in his village until 2011 (June 2006)

Kris Odling - A 23-year-old banned from every pub
and club in Bury town centre and from being drunk in public (March
2006)

Wayne McHugh - A 26-year-old rugby league player
given an order banning him from all licensed premises in Castleford
and from being drunk in any public place (March 2006)

Pauline McNamara - A 39-year-old barred from every pub,
bar and alcohol-serving restaurant in England and Wales for two
years (November 2005)

Colette Cowap - A 38-year-old who became the first
lawyer to be made subject to an order, after a series of alcohol-related
offences, was found dead at her home just four days later. Her
father said his daughter "needed help not an Asbo. I think
that pushed her over the edge" (October 2005)

Eliot Montgomery - A 32-year-old jailed for six months
and barred from every pub in England and Wales, and being drunk
in a public place for three years (May 2005)

Michael Chadwick - In 2002 the then 32-year-old ex-soldier
was made subject to an order banning him from every pub in his borough
and from being drunk in Oldham for five years. A string of convictions
later he has now been banned from causing trouble anywhere in
the country for the next decade. His lawyer argued that the fact
that he is on probation and faces a return to custody should
he break the law should be deterrent enough (May 2005)

Eddie Jones - A 53-year-old homeless man sentenced
to 30 days in jail for breaching the terms of his order when
he entered a Wrexham pub (May 2005) Jones has since been jailed
again for drinking in a pub (January 2006) Jones has
been jailed
once again for opening a can of lager in a Tesco car
park. The judge claimed to be sentencing him with a "heavy
heart" and said: "This is his sixth Asbo breach. Is
the court going to keep giving him longer and longer prison sentences
for opening cans of lager in the Tesco car park? What does it
achieve?" (September 2006)

Steve Winstone - A 38-year-old alcoholic served a poorly
worded order which forbids him from not being drunk. Amazingly
the local authorities failed to spot their error until they tried
to charge him for breaching the order (March 2005)

Jennifer Ford - A 44-year-old woman with mental health problems
living in sheltered accommodation jailed for four weeks for breaking
her interim order by drinking alcohol in the city centre (February
2005)

John Martindale - A 60-year-old "known drunk"
given a landmark 15-month prison sentence for breaching his order
(December 2004) He was jailed again in September 2008 and released
early in February 2009. Two days later he was found to be drunk
in a public place and sent
to prison for another seven months (February 2009) Jailed
again in May 2009 and told by the judge to "go down
south when you get out and leave us alone up here" (May
2009) In
the news again (November 2009) Update:Spared
Jail (January 2010)

Barry Radford - A 29-year-old barred from being drunk
or carrying alcohol in a public place breached his order within
two days and was handed a two month prison sentence (December
2004)

David Bell - A 57-year-old homeless alcoholic banned
from carrying or consuming alcohol in a public place and entering
licensed premises. Unsurprisingly he breached the order within
two weeks (August 2004)

Mark Whittaker - This 47-year-old was banned from buying
or consuming alcohol anywhere in England and Wales. Having breached
it he was sentenced to eight months in prison but walked free
because of the time spent in custody on remand (August 2004)

Philip Lester - A 51-year-old was served, and has
since breached, an order banning him from consuming or being
under the influence of alcohol in any public place on Merseyside
and using abusive or insulting language (July 2004)

Robert &
Lisa Hughes - This
married couple were banned from drinking in any public place
throughout Britain (May 2004)

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